Nah.

• Turkey

Talkativeness rather than belligerence, and wine.

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Admittedly, I'm twenty-four and hosting an unclassy Thanksgiving with fellow grad students, but we do it with paper plates and Solo cups. Then I tell the guests that no one gets dessert until their silverware is cleaned and the side dishes they brought are packed up or thrown out.

How do I carve a turkey?

I want that bedazzled J Crew sweatshirt though.

Wow, that seems low. For some reason I thought it was around $40K if you did it in a big city.

The meta commentary about your blatant consumerism being for the blatantly consumerist Capitol is pretty slick.

Korres Volcanic Minerals Mascara ($20). She came to visit me, borrowed my mascara, and loved it, but I think she thinks $20 is a splurge (she's a little iffy about her $16 for Clinique mascara as it is). But mascara is the only thing she wears aside from Garnier BB cream, so it's the perfect combination of:

Last Thanksgiving I tried to get all my (grad student) guests to try bourbon for the first time (Bulleit). Only one successfully finished the small cup; the rest took sips and put the glasses back, so of course I drank all the leftovers. Then I made my sister drive me to the mall for drunken Black Friday shopping,…

I'm hosting a potluck Thanksgiving for eight other people and none of them has signed up to bring mashed potatoes. So despite the fact that I am a) the hostess, b) picking up and heating our precooked turkey (no one wants the responsibility of fucking up the turkey), c) making cranberry sauce, d) bringing rolls, I'm…

Frying pan and not a knife because she hits people with a frying pan in her movie.

Crap, uh.

I'm a 2L law student, and got a summer offer from a very large firm that held a dinner party with a load of associates, partners, and students who'd gotten offers. One of the associates was telling me that she had some of the best times bonding with summers taking them to get pedicures and talking shop (if you're…

This is also how all AT&T's "It's Not Complicated" commercials should end.

My mom is an elementary school nurse, and she moved The Talk up from late spring to early fall because otherwise half the class had started their periods by the time she did The Talk. (The boys still get theirs in the spring.)

There are also wigs that are heat-resistant and can handle a conventional flat iron or blow-dryer.

mte

I'm a 2L at Michigan, and one of my friends is interested in education law and policy, so, you're not the only person who goes to law school for this. Compared to those of us who are going to law firms, she's not sure where she'll end up, though.